0xTraubDon’t start shit inside the bar, or what the movie Roadhouse (1989) can teach us about building in…I got into Crypto in around 2018–2019, coming off the Eth bull run. It was a very different landscape from what it is today. The market has…Aug 12Aug 12
0xTraubIt won’t byte. Omni-Chain deployment factories and the Create3 LibraryI was working on a new project recently and wanted to do something new. It seems that all the rage these days is omni-chain deployments…May 2, 2023May 2, 2023
0xTraubWhat the WT-FTX happened?I’ve gotten a lot of calls recently, from a lot of people, many of whom I haven’t spoken to in a while asking me about FTX, the…Nov 17, 2022Nov 17, 2022
0xTraubThe implications of Tornado Cash’s censoring.Yesterday the US Treasury dept. declared that Tornado.Cash would be subject to OFAC sanctions for its role in helping North Korea launder…Aug 9, 20221Aug 9, 20221
0xTraubChainlink, the link, between crypto and the real-worldThe blockchain is an island, lost in the endless sea of the internet. Despite our interconnected world, it has no connection to the rest of…Aug 8, 2022Aug 8, 2022
0xTraubMonero, or how I lost my coins in a boating accidentEver since the Colonial-Pipeline Hacking, the media has seemed to fixate not on Colonial Pipeline’s obscene disregard for security, but…Aug 8, 2022Aug 8, 2022
0xTraubA (not-so-brief) into to DeFiShort for Decentralized Finance, some have heralded it as a new age of financial instruments. Others have called it a nothing-burger…Aug 8, 2022Aug 8, 2022
0xTraubAn actually nuanced take on NFTsLet’s get it right out of the way, 99% of NFT’s are stupid. They serve little to no actual value and are just plain ugly. People are taking…Aug 8, 2022Aug 8, 2022
0xTraubThe Ethereum-Name-Service (ENS) and the future of DNSFacebook made news recently when it was discovered that they unilaterally revoked the “@metaverse” handle from an instagram user. This user…Aug 8, 2022Aug 8, 2022